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by snuxoll 3792 days ago
Really, having a $10 VPS and using screen or tmux is "uber-geek"? Look, if you can code in virtually any programming language I'd like to think you have the ability to use screen and irssi in under 10 minutes. We are talking specifically about open source projects, not general IM across a business (though I'd still use IRC there, just give everyone hexchat/xchat/whatever nice GUI client you want).

For end-user support people are still more than capable of using a desktop IRC client, as evidenced by the WEALTH of people that ask questions on #fedora, #debian, #ubuntu, etc every single day.
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jeena 3792 days ago
> having a $10 VPS

Oh yes that is definitely uber-geek.

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kefka 3792 days ago
No, having a cheap VPS handle automatable tasks isn't ubergeek.

Setting up Node-red on a VPS, and logging a dozen IRC rooms you're interested in, storing in a MongoDB, and creating a search DB... over TOR is being an "uber-geek".

And it took me 10 minutes to set up. No programming required, interestingly enough.

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